The Grimsby Telegraph is naming and shaming the criminals locked up for committing serious offences by our courts in August.

Our list of criminals includes violent attackers, speeding drivers and career criminals.

Last month we looked at the criminals jailed in July. The group of 11 convicts racked up over 40 prison sentences between them for crimes including theft, dangerous driving and possession of a Samurai sword in a public place.

August's gang of eight criminals accrued over 47 years' worth of prison sentences between them, and we re-cap the stories behind their setences.

Paul McDowall and Alistair Evison

Paul McDowall, right, and Alistair Evison

These two men, who put a group of teenagers through an hour long ordeal carrying out a catalogue of sex offences against them on Halloween, were each jailed for 14 years.

The pair came across the two 15-year-old girls and a 14-year-old boy outside the Gas Lamp Lounge pub in Louth and after chatting to them offered the three of them a lift home.

Lincoln Crown Court was told that the teenagers were all drunk with one girl so intoxicated that she could hardly stand up.

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McDowall, 41, of Louth Road, South Somercotes, was found guilty of one charge of rape, two charges of sexual assault and a further charge of engaging in sexual activity with a child. He was cleared of one charge of assault by penetration.

Evison, 43, whose address was given as c/o Stanley Close, Louth, was found guilty of three charges of assault by penetration, three charges of sexual assault and a further charge of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without their consent. He was cleared of a further charge of assault by penetration.

Robert Bracey

Robert Bracey, who was locked up at Grimsby Crown Court

Sneaky sex pest Robert Bracey, who had convictions for 136 previous offences, was branded “lowlife” after he started kissing and touching an 18-year-old girl as she slept.

Bracey, 49, of Hainton Avenue, Grimsby, admitted two offences of sexual assault and was jailed for 15 months.

Grimsby Crown Court heard how the victim woke up during the incident, hurriedly jumped out of bed and ran to the toilet but he later claimed he was “only messing."